Self Evaluation of My Academic Year

There are many things to say about this academic year. This year had good and bad things, but it was a good year in general. To make a self evaluation of this year we have to consider different topics, like the grades, the quality and requirements of the subjects and their teachers. But this essay is about mi self evaluation, for this reason is important to focus in this question: Has my performance been satisfactory? In first place, we have to consider that the year is not over yet, we have a lot of things to do yet…

How I said at the beginning this year has been good in general, but it had good and bad points. Some of the bad points have been the bad subjects, like quantitative methods and social theory II. These subjects were very bored, and the teachers are not very good. I have to recognize that in the first term, to quantitative methods, I went to class only a few times, because the teacher did her class with PowerPoint presentations. Theory II has not finished yet, but in my opinion, has not been a good subject, because the teacher, is very “dispersed” and she talks all the time about the “body” and things like that.

About the good subjects we can to mention Theory I and Social History of Chile. The first was a very good subject, the best of the first term, principally because the teacher is a very good teacher, and the matter of the subjects were very interesting. And about the second, social history of Chile, was a great subject, because the teacher is the best in his field. He was decorated with the national prize of history and he has written a lot of books. But both subjects were very hard, and we have to study a lot to approve them.

I had three subjects of English, and I think that I have learned a lot about it. This is my last year, and I would like to continue learning English, to someday travel to another countries and can communicated, or study without problems. Now I have a good basis in English.

Mi performance in the year has been good, I have not had any red grade in all the year (at the moment) and the career is good for my. But I have to make a big effort and study a lot. Sometimes I have been very tired, particularly at the mornings, but I have learned a lot. In summary all the subjects were difficult, but I could to pass everything without many problems. Now I hope that the year finish good too.

Actually there are many challenges for the sociology. These problems have to be resolved by the sociology to continue developing as a science. First, about the technology, the sociology and the social sciences in general, have developed a lot of instruments technologies to make investigation, like the statistic softwares . These programs have mean great developing and facilities to make investigation, increasing the speed and precision of the investigation. But there are many challenges about this. For example, the actualization of the softwares, the high cost and the complex use of them. You have to be an expert to use them, and the licenses to use them expired in a very short time. The solution is the expanding of this kind of programs, a deep teaching in the universities of them, or the piracy…


About social matters is important to develop a real integration of the people, decrease the inequality in the society, in the education, the health, the opportunities. The sociology has to give answers to this kind of problem. There are many others problems like the poverty, the discrimination. Some of these problems are reproduced in the education in the university. Differences between social classes played in education in university. People who get more social level have higher scores on the psu and therefore have easier access to university. This inequality can be seen also in materials that are available for study. Actually is necessary to generate more discussions in the career about social problems. I think that this is the solution, make more spaces to discuses about themes that are in the social context. This is similar to the education. Is important consider new theories and discuses about the sociology. This is apply in the last years of the career, but I think that is important do it in all the career, since the first year of study. Also, is important to include more Chilean theory, closer to our reality, not only European and north American sociology. For this reason are important the congres that are being developed in Chile and latinamerica.

A Piece of new

The piece of new that I have chosen is that the pope´s sculpture that the university of San Sebastian and Recoleta´s municipality want to stand in Bellavista neighborhood was rejected by the monument council. The reasons are principally because the monument is too invasive in the area. This is a problem that comes a few months ago, when the residents of the neighborhood criticized the installation of the sculpture. But the problem happened since long time ago, and for other reasons. The residents are organized to defend his neighborhood of different “devil” strengths, like the economical power. The problem is that the University of San Sebastian installed a big building in the middle of Pionono Street. The new faculty means an increase of the people that walk by the neighborhood every day. To that we have to add the problems of criminality, drunk, and noise that the residents have to support every day and night.
The proyect of the University means a big chance in the structure of the neighborhood, demographic and visual effects, and the municipality permitted this project without the consent of the residents.
I liked to heard this kind of news because it means that in some way the asking of the people are being heard by some authorities, and the rights of the citizen are being respected. The people, like the residents of Bellavista neighborhood, have to express their problems and the authorities have to hear them. In the same way, the people is not alone, because are institution dedicated to help and developed the citizen participation, like Ciudad Viva. This institution is working with the neighborhood´s committees to make that the authorities help and heard them.

Faculty facilities

The current situation in my faculty is better than last year, but this does not mean that it is totally good. There are some things that should be improving by the authorities, in a serious way. For example, last year we didn´t have a decent computer room. There were only a few computers and they were very slow. If there were a free computer, you wasted much time because the internet was very slow. If you didn´t find a free computer you could use the computers in the room of post degree and only before four o´clock. But now it is different, we have a much better computer room, with three different rooms and the computers are very good, they are very modern and fast, and you can always find a free computer.

Another better thing is the microwaves. Not long ago we had only two of them, and you had to wait in a line very long time. These microwaves are broken and now, there are four new microwaves. Now you don´t have to wait a lot of time. But the bad thing is that the authorities have to wait for the old microwaves to break down to replace them, they could have replaced them before, if they knew the real conditions of the faculty. For example the library. There is a lot of noise and you can´t study. We don´t have a real study room, where you can talk or discuss with your work group about a homework for example. This is funny, in the beginning of this term, the authorities told us that we will have a new study room. But it is the dining hall! Only with more connections and with Wi-Fi. This is shameful! And this show us wich is the real intention of the authorities to solve this kind of problems.

To solve these problems is important because having good tools to help us study better, and things such as better library and a study room, or good classrooms is important, because in this way we can focus only in our studies. For these reasons it is important that authorities can improve the facilities in our faculty, for example a real study room or a real library when we can read and study in a real way.